Shooting standoff suspect arraigned

Tuesday

Jul 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - A suspect in last week's shooting standoff with Stockton police was arraigned on murder charges Monday after authorities matched the firearm he possessed that night to the fatal shooting of 22-year-old John Martin Newton five days earlier.

Jennie Rodriguez-Moore

STOCKTON - A suspect in last week's shooting standoff with Stockton police was arraigned on murder charges Monday after authorities matched the firearm he possessed that night to the fatal shooting of 22-year-old John Martin Newton five days earlier.

Defendant Juan Julius Barnes, 19, was located on the rooftop of August Knodt Elementary School in Weston Ranch with a .40-caliber Glock pistol underneath him following a shootout with police Wednesday, Chief Deputy District Attorney Ronald Freitas said in court.

Freitas said it is the same gun used to kill Newton in a home invasion robbery.

Newton was found dead July 5 in an apartment in the 1400 block of Marco Polo Drive.

Law enforcement officers encountered Barnes five days later when they attempted to pull him over in a stolen sport utility vehicle along with three other occupants, Freitas said.

The driver of the vehicle led officers on a short pursuit and stopped at the school, where Barnes and another suspect, 22-year-old Deandre Adams, got out of the SUV and ran away, authorities reported.

Stockton police reported that Barnes ran toward the back of the campus and scaled a building while Deandre Adams shot at officers with a high-powered assault rifle.

Deandre Adams was shot multiple times. Shortly thereafter, Barnes was located on a rooftop near the southwest corner of the campus.

The police search had drawn a crowd of onlookers.

Barnes was arraigned Monday on charges of murder with special circumstances of burglary and an enhancement of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury, as well as two firearm charges, in Newton's slaying. The judge also ordered him to be held in jail without bail.

Barnes was additionally charged with two other counts in connection with the events Wednesday. Terrance Adams was arraigned alongside him on those charges. Terrance Adams' bail was set at $250,000.

Prosecutors have declined to file a complaint against Gonzalez.

Freitas said his office is waiting for Deandre Adams, who is recovering from gunshot wounds in a hospital, to be cleared before charging him with the attempted murder of a police officer, the use of an assault weapon and "related charges."

The DA's office would not disclose whether Terrance Adams and Deandre Adams are related.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office on Monday identified the three deputies who exchanged gunfire with the defendants as Khamkhoune Kannalikham and Shawn Vargas, both hired in 2008, and Nick Taiariol, who was hired in 2009.

The Sheriff's Office waited to identify the deputies until they returned from administrative leave. It is standard for law enforcement officers to receive three-day paid administrative leave for officer-involved shootings.

The Stockton Police Department had identified its officer involved the day after the incident.